Organization overview

SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is a local non-governmental organization established affiliated 60 years to SOS Children’s Villages International, a worldwide childcare and protection organization that provides orphaned and destitute children with a permanent family home and educational opportunities. Currently SOS Children’s Villages International has Children’s Villages and other projects in 135 countries around the world. Globally, it runs the SOS Children’s Village Programme which has two main arms, i.e. Family Like Care based at SOS Children’s Villages and Family Strengthening Programmes supporting families in local communities. SOS Children’s Villages has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our programs are currently working in Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Iringa, Dodoma, and Mtwara.

Job summary

Education and Health Programme Officer is responsible to facilitate access to education and health services for children, young people, caregivers and community partners, facilitate partners and other duty bearers. He/she is responsible for facilitating the capacity building of CSO and other duty bearers, communities and duty bearers to effectively protect and care for their children sustainably in cooperation with local authorities and other service providers, enabling children who are at risk of losing the care of their families to grow with a healthy family environment.

Major Responsibilities

• Facilitate the formation and development of Community health education Task Force on organise and facilitate training on individual, community health and education levels.
• Lead the budgeting for FS programme health and education components.
• Support community task force on health programme and community levels through lead budgeting leading to FS abandonment to family and community levels through use of appropriate participatory tools.
• Facilitate the identification of opportunities to meet the needs of each local resource and community.
• Support the development of individual family development plans and community development plans with a focus on education and health.
• Facilitate development of emergency preparedness plans related to education and health.
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to schools, tertiary, vocational institutions to assess learner performance, learning environments, class progress; analyse educational quality and access.
• In collaboration with community partners, identify eligible young people for vocational training, community partners assessments, facilitate young enrolment into vocational training, community partners.
• Organise caregiver training in pre- and after-school adult support, facilitate adult support for caregivers.
• Promote girl-mother scholarship and women opportunities to education programme services for caregivers.
• Identify children and caregivers in need of health support and facilitate access to essential services including immunisation, nutrition training, medical support, home-based care.
• Organise regular nutritional support assessments, nutritional training groups, medical support groups.
• HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns.
• Monitor and evaluate programmes through home visits, data collection, and reporting.
• Prepare and submit timely accurate, compliant and quality progress reports.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Abilities, and Behavioral Competences

• Degree in nursing, Public Health, Education, and Rural Development or related social natural sciences disciplines.
• At least two years’ experience in working with education and health programmes.
• Sound understanding of child rights with safeguarding education, child health programmes, family and community development, rights-based programming and management of CBPs.
• Good communication and reporting skills, computer literate, understanding and ability to apply community team, strong initiative values participatory methodologies with self-starter, ability to work in a team, strong team values participatory methodologies with minimum supervision.

• Facilitate the formation and development of Community health education Task Force on organise and facilitate training on individual, community health and education levels.
• Lead the budgeting for FS programme health and education components.
• Support community task force on health programme and community levels through lead budgeting leading to FS abandonment to family and community levels through use of appropriate participatory tools.
• Facilitate the identification of opportunities to meet the needs of each local resource and community.
• Support the development of individual family development plans and community development plans with a focus on education and health.
• Facilitate development of emergency preparedness plans related to education and health.
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to schools, tertiary, vocational institutions to assess learner performance, learning environments, class progress; analyse educational quality and access.
• In collaboration with community partners, identify eligible young people for vocational training, community partners assessments, facilitate young enrolment into vocational training, community partners.
• Organise caregiver training in pre- and after-school adult support, facilitate adult support for caregivers.
• Promote girl-mother scholarship and women opportunities to education programme services for caregivers.
• Identify children and caregivers in need of health support and facilitate access to essential services including immunisation, nutrition training, medical support, home-based care.
• Organise regular nutritional support assessments, nutritional training groups, medical support groups.
• HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns.
• Monitor and evaluate programmes through home visits, data collection, and reporting.
• Prepare and submit timely accurate, compliant and quality progress reports.

• Good communication and reporting skills
• Computer literate
• Understanding and ability to apply community team
• Strong initiative values participatory methodologies with self-starter
• Ability to work in a team
• Strong team values participatory methodologies with minimum supervision

• Degree in nursing, Public Health, Education, and Rural Development or related social natural sciences disciplines.
• Sound understanding of child rights with safeguarding education, child health programmes, family and community development, rights-based programming and management of CBPs.